Underworld Announce Brand New Album "Barking" For September

"Barking" is the title of Underworld's first album in three years, and their first to be constructed with a brilliant cast of co-conspirators. All the tracks were written by the band in their Essex studio before being given to handpicked studio heads from across the whole spectrum of dance music to add some of their style and creativity to the band's raw material. The result is a pimped-up Underworld record and their finest collection of songs in over a decade.

Underworld are Rick Smith and Karl Hyde. They have been working together in music for thirty years since meeting in Cardiff University in the late '70s. Following time working in various bands with luminaries like Conny Plank, Iggy Pop and Debbie Harry, Smith and Hyde (with help from DJ Darren Emerson) began experimenting with making club music in the early '90s, first as Lemon Interupt then reactivating one of their old band names - Underworld - releasing their first single proper, "Mmm... Skyscraper, I Love You," in 1993. As well as becoming the first band from the nascent ‘dance' scene to grace the cover of a weekly music paper, they scored massive critical hits with each of their album releases (Dubnobasswithmyheadman, Second Toughest In The Infants,Beaucoup Fish, One Hundred Days Off and Oblivion With Bells).

In 2005, Underworld released the Riverrun series, a trio of downloadable mixes of new material and works-in-progress, making them one of the first acts of their scale to attempt to directly sell their own records. The band continue to release alternate versions and curios through www.underworldlive.com.

Underworld's continuing relationship with director Danny Boyle has seen their music used in many of his movies. In 1996 a former B-side track, Born Slippy (Nuxx), soundtracked an entire summer, selling close to a million copies when released as a single. They recently scored Boyle's sci-fi movie Sunshine.

In the early '90s Smith and Hyde helped co-found the design company tomato. Hyde has recently worked extensively with Brian Eno on the collaborative Pure Scenius project, playing largely improvised gigs at Sydney's Opera House and at the Brighton Festival.

The tracks on Barking are:

• Bird 1 (additional production by Dubfire)
• Always Loved A Film (a/p Mark Knight & D. Ramirez)
• Scribble (a/p High Contrast)
• Hamburg Hotel (a/p Appleblim & Al Tourettes)
• Grace (a/p Dubfire)
• Between Stars (a/p Mark K & D. Ramirez)
• Diamond Jigsaw (a/p Paul van Dyk)
• Moon In Water (a/p High Contrast)
• Louisiana

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